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Barrow - ring-barrow

Moneylea, County Roscommon, Ireland

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Townland
Moneylea
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Little Rathbeg
Coordinates
53.80931, -8.31354
SMR number
RO022-056016-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a knoll towards the N edge of the Rathcroghan plateau, and enclosed within a farmyard. Described as an earthen mound (diam. c. 7m; H c. 0.9m) separated by a fosse from an earthen bank (Wth c. 1.8m) with traces of an outer fosse (max. ext. diam. c. 18m) (Knox 1911, 234-5). It is now a circular scrub-covered mound (diam. c. 14m E-W; c. 13m N-S; H c. 1m) confined by silage pits and animal pens excavated into the ground around it to the W and N (D c. 1.5m) and with a laneway to the E. Rathmore (RO022-056-017-) is c. 160m to the ENE, and ring-barrow (RO021-042004-) is c. 250m to the W. (Herity 1983, 130; 1984, 134 Moneylea 2; Waddell 1983, 37, No. 27)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

Herity, M. 1983 A survey of the royal site of Cruachain in Connacht, 1. Introduction, the monuments and topography. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 113, 121-42.

Waddell, J. 1983 Rathcroghan - a royal site in Connaught. Journal of Irish Archaeology 1, 21-46.

Knox, H.T. 1911 The Croghans and Some Connacht Raths and Cashels. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 41, 93-116, 205-40, 301-42.

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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